Well, not ordering from Amazon is at least a start for opting out.
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My neighbor across the street has a Ring camera pointed right at my house, so Amazon doesn’t need a vehicle driving by.
Is that legal in your jurisdiction?
We should have legislated a electronic bill of rights, but people felt comfortable because you could technically retain your privacy if you were aware of better options.
Privacy enthusiasts will one day run out options and will join the rest of the normies in the dragnet. Those flock cams are probably the sign its already happened.
The rot has spread to far. Amputation will no longer save us.
Amazon drivers have no reason to be near my home, we have standards.
Lol you're so much better than the rest of us because you go to target instead of amazon
I don't shop at target. Your lack of standards doesn't make me better than you, it makes you worse than me.
Wherever you shop it makes no difference
So nice your privileged and have options. Not everyone does.
Except when you buy something in Amazon. Your can see your home also for sure in Google Street View, same as you are even in YT and webs with open life cams
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=open+life+cams
Surveillance is big business for big corps, they put it even in your home and your pocket (Alexa, Siri, GPS, smart TV, smartwatches, smartphones, credit cards, discounter apps......). Only leaving your home, going to the shop, in every city you are at least in half a dozend cams. Privacy nowadays is an illusion.
Except when you buy something in Amazon.
Which I won't, since I don't.
Except no one in the house has an Amazon account
I've ordered items from eBay just to have them arrive at my house in Amazon packaging, delivered by an Amazon driver.
You know GPS isn't survaluence it is just a one way very slow signal.
Yes, this what the people think, a Smartphone is always locatable ⨦50m, except you switch it off
Locatable by the connection to the cell towers. Nothing to do with GPS.
Yes, but that's got nothing to do with GPS.
No, but anyway it's not correct that GPS function only works in one direction- without GPS, location is made with triangulation fron Cell Towers, which give an aprox locatiob. With GPS on they can find you with a precision of few meters. Not possible if GPS works only in one direction and also not slow, if not, an navigation app wouldn't work.
No, but anyway it’s not correct that GPS function only works in one direction
GPS works in one direction. GPS satellites send one-way GPS signals, they receive no information back from your phone.
With GPS on they can find you with a precision of few meters
Yes, very likely.
Not possible if GPS works only in one direction
Absolutely possible. For example Android phones can, and in most cases do, send your location (that your phones figures out from GPS signals) to Google, with your internet connection, either Wi-Fi or cellular data. GPS signals don't need to be bidirectional for that to happen.
Man I don't know how my office handheld GPS works then mist be magic. GPS is one way the fact your device has a cell modem in it that allows the other way is not a function of GPS.
Can't you opt out of google street view? Im sure ive seen houses blurred out on there.
I might order from Amazon twice a year. Orders always go to the post office or a locker.
When I get packages delivered by any courier company they take a photo of the package at the door and the front of the house as proof. How is this new? And yes, use the lockers if available for Amazon deliveries or use your work address I guess.
Do people not realize you can get pretty much everything you can get on Amazon on eBay and frequently for cheaper or without the "You have to buy $35 worth of stuff to get free shipping" clause? Or same with Costco for a lot of stuff for that matter.
Just make a conscious choice not to feed the troll.
I stopped buying off eBay after I fell for a well made scam listing and they made it literally impossible to contact a human being so I had to file a charge back. Mind you, this was after they nuked the scammers account AFTER I paid for the order, so they knew they were scamming, didn't reach out at all, and tried to make it impossible to do anything about it.
Fuck eBay. They know damn well they've got scammers, and more importantly, they're perfectly happy to keep their cut after the scam is over. I'll only buy off eBay as a last resort if I need it and can't get it anywhere else.
Damn that sucks, sorry you got scammed. :/
I’ve e had pretty good luck so far. About the worst experience I’ve ever had was people shipping me things in a knotted plastic grocery bag lol.
Same, I've had better luck getting sellers to communicate and fix shit on eBay than Amazon. Amazon only ever offered refunds, eBay people tried to make it right first. Like when the cabinet I ordered arrived with the glass busted out they gave me a partial refund to just replace the glass (way more than the glass cost), so I didn't have to fuck with sending it back. That was great. The other time I ordered some parts and they left out half they just refunded the whole order and let me keep them.
I cancelled my Amazon account a few years ago and tried eBay instead. A lot of stuff I ordered was just proxied from Amazon. It even came in Amazon packaging.
Right Ebay, another one of those very ethical companies.
I bet you make very good conscious choices
Where has ebay not been ethical?
shipped flour and canned goods?
Aliexpress for a lot cheaper. Since a lot of it is purchased from there and resold.
Google does this: "wow best thing ever look at the cranks getting upset. No privacy in public places. Thanks Google."
Amazon does this: "wow worst thing ever--they're not even letting me look at the data."
Daily reminder: you're sharing a video hosted on YouTube. Inconsistency and lack of logic will get us to privacy one day. Keep at it gang! Chins up! Port paddle in reverse! Starboard paddle straight--we'll get there in no time! Such enthusiasm!
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